Blue Beryl
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Blue Beryl
Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship, with Wakoh Shannon Hickey
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Dr. Pierce Salguero & Dr. Lan Li
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Season 1
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Episode 3
In this episode, I sit down with my friend Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. We talk about Wakoh’s early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S.
Resources:
- Wakoh's Academia.edu page
- Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (2019)
- Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019)
- Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019)
- Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019)
Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast at www.piercesalguero.com
